Kalamazoo Opinion Links: Do whites fear no longer being the majority or fear a government that ignores them?

Jae C. Hong / Associated PressSarah Palin, center, greets Tea Party activists after speaking at the "Showdown in Searchlight" tea party rally in Searchlight, Nev., March 27.Sarah Palin has positioned herself as the spokesperson for the Tea Party movement. While she told Politico that it's the "lame-stream" media that is linking the tea party to violent acts in the wake of the health care bill's passage, her own Facebook page placed targets on a map to represent which members of Congress should be defeated.

Meanwhile, Frank Rich in his weekly New York Times column argues that the anger is not about the health care bill. He claims the anger reaches back to October 2008 and fear of a loss of a white majority in the United States. Meanwhile, Joe Fitzgerald, writing for the Boston Herald, says the problem is that Americans feel the huge federal bureaucracy no longer listens to or is responsive to voters.